
EI Weekly Listen—Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
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Palestinian Identity - The Palestinians
After the shocking defeat of 19 67, a fresh threat to palestinian identity emerged in jerusalem. The israelis began to excavate the area just south of the old city walls. Dansige's nimrod was a hunter with a falcon on his shoulder,. looking more egyptian than jewish. And perhaps the worst of it, he was uncircumcised. It raised a feruri the hebrew university who had ordered it didn't want it? Why? Because it so blatantly went against the spirit of zionism and its agricultural ideals.
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